Re: What's happened to PSPP?

[Roy Powell]

Hi

I work as a statistician in the NHS and I think PSPP is really great! I've been using it for 10 years or more. Before that, I had used various versions of SPSS even from before the days of Windows actually - on a university mainframe. 🙂

Keep up the good work!

I was really worried when I couldnt find it - I use Linux on my home laptop...

Best wishes

Roy

On Wed, 9 Mar 2022, 18:56 Ben Pfaff, <blp@cs.stanford.edu> wrote:

Nope!

PSPP is under active development. I'm currently working on the Custom Tables procedure.

On Wed, Mar 9, 2022 at 10:54 AM Roy Powell <royjpowell@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Friedrich

Many thanks for the update and the link. I wondered if SPSS had sued or something like that!

Kind regards

Roy

On Wed, 9 Mar 2022, 17:43 Friedrich Beckmann, <friedrich.beckmann@gmx.de> wrote:

Hi Roy,

i guess this is related to a licensing problem which resulted in pspp being dropped in debian. During that time Ubuntu started a new distribution focal where pspp was then missing. I resolved the licensing issue so pspp is now back but not in Focal.

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-pspp/2020-05/msg00004.html

I guess Linux Mint then copied from Ubuntu Focal and therefore it is also missing in Mint.

Cheers

Fritz

> Am 08.03.2022 um 15:59 schrieb Roy Powell <royjpowell@gmail.com>:
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> From: Roy Powell <royjpowell@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2022 at 11:36
> Subject: What's happened to PSPP?
> To: <gnu@gnu.org>
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> Hi
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> I have been trying to download and install PSPP on Linux Mint but the response from the command 'apt-get install pspp' is that it is not available:
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> Package pspp is not available, but is referred to by another package.
> This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
> is only available from another source
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> Can anyone explain please?
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> best wishes
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> Roy Powell
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